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The Ideal Wedding Officiant for Your Celtic Wedding Ceremony in Velarde, New Mexico
Events recognizing Celtic roots and practices have long been preferred. From the stirring cry of the bag pipe to the dress of official tartan and kilt, wedding celebrations based on facets of Celtic practice can give long lasting memories. Facets of these wedding celebrations could include part or all the following:
Anam Cara - Actually, the Hearts other Half, this tradition is a special event commemorating the production of an ageless love now and forever more. This celebration of the components; to the Celts the four aspects Earth, Fire, Water and Air were the structures on which an effective connection were constructed.
Anam Cara
This custom was adapted as Christianity relocated into the Celtic lands and remains to be a terrific means to include friends and family in your ceremony.
Handfasting
Handfasting - A ceremony going back to classical times, Handfasting is a practice of marriage before the accessibility of rings as well as precious metals. The couple would take an item of fabric or rope and before their families and friends, declare their love and intent by reciting a couple of words and also binding themselves together symbolically with the rope. It is from this custom we still refer to marriage as "tying the knot".
Oathing Stone -- What better location to put the assurances of a life time and eternity than in the heart of a stone? The oathing stone is held by the bride and groom while their vows are recited, then in some customs is tossed right into a deep body of water to hold those pledges for evermore. Today that stone could be kept as a remembrance of this wedding.
Oathing Stone
The Quaich - Initially crafted from timber the double handled Quaich was a Scotsman's canteen, mess kit and also drinking vessel rolled into one. King James of Scotland provided his betrothed Anne of Denmark a Quaich as a symbol of his love for her throughout the wedding, From that point on the Quaich has been called the "loving cup". This beautiful ceremony shares the true blessings of Kith as well as Kin to the couple.
The Quaich
Pinning of the Tartan
Pinning of the Tartan - A new bride is formally accepted into the groom's family through this ceremony. Typically the oldest woman member of the groom's family offers a piece of the household 's Tartan to the bride-to-be signifying she is currently interwoven right into all the doings of the clan.
The presentation of the family sword - The martial origins of the Celtic peoples focused on the defense of fireplace as well as house. This event is the acknowledgement of the male members of the bride's household that they too now have a new partnership and a brand-new brother in arms.
Family Arms
At Life's Moments weddings we can offer thorough assistance on Celtic/Scottish/Irish ceremonies, from construction of the event to the final true blessing in Gaelic we can assist you create the day of your desires ...
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